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Grady Ccmnty Progress
vol. i.
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1911.
NO. 36
mv iii cm
ISMC LOST
By Not Manufacturing Here
All of Grady's Harwood
AND SHIPPING IT AWAY FINISHED UP
The Way Is Open and the Citizens
Should Get Busy and- Organize
A Manufactory for the Purpose
ol Working up the logs.
On the Walker lot near the home
of D. P. Oliver there are piled 50 to
100 as fine poplar logs as can. bo
found anywhere. These arc for
shipment to some other place.
Freight will be paid on the logs,
they will bo manufactured into
furniture, and it is very likely that
at least some of this furniture will
find its way back to Cairo and be
sold to our people. Frieght will be
paid on the material two ways, and
several parties will yet a profit out
of it instead of these legs being
manufactured into ^furniture and
other things right here at home.
Are we not throwing away our
candle in this matter, and paying
others to do for us what we' might
do for ourselves? This furniture
can be manufactured just as cheaply
here as anywhere, and transporta-
p ofits be saved. Why is not this
done? (
There is abundant of . material-
■within a few miles of Cairo to main
tain a hard wood factory for years.
Hickory, poplar, oak, ash, and the
like are abundant in our swamps.
We are throwing away one of our
most valuable resources when we
fail to manufacture this material in
to chairs, tables, helves, spokes,
handles, hames and the like.
We pay thousands of dollars each
year for these articles which are
made for us by other people. Why
not make them at home and so
give our own and other workmen
something to do, and keep here the
money which we pay others to
make these things for us?
Properly manged there is oppor
tunity for a most profitable industry
in this line.
As a rule our people are slow to
appreciate a business opportunity
Here is one which will not only add
to our population, but will keep at
home the money wjiich we are now
conditions relative to the handling
paying to other people, in addition
to the money that can be drawn
from other places by shipping these
article to, .neighboring cities and
towns. It is time to quit working
for other people in this line, and do
sotneting for ourselves. Will not
some one awake to the opportunity?
Two States Report a
Fine Week of Progress,
Columbus, Ga., Marbh 13.—The
Georgia and Alabama Industrial
* Index, published at Columbus, Ga.,
says in its regular weekly issue:
“Puolic improvments again con
stitute an improvment chapter of
the business story of Georgia and
Alabama for the. week ending to
day. Dallas county, Alabama,
awarded contract for road building,
Russel county, in the same state,
invited proposals for similar work
and Jefferson county decided to
build 21 steel and concrete bridges.
Taylor county, Georgia, will vote
on the issuance of road bonds,
School bonds were voted by Flomu-
Whose “Hog” Will
This “Run Out of the
Potato Patch?”
The following telegram was received late Thurs
day afternoon by The Progress from Mr. Barring
ton Wilson, former editor of The Whigham Ne\vs.
Moultrie, Ga., March 23, 1911.
Grady County Progress,
Cairo, Ga.,
Please announce to my friends in Grady county
that I have no answer to offer The Whigham News
other than a ten thousand dollar damage suit against
the editor and the stockholders for malicious slander.
Ask them to reserve judgment until they hear the
evidence I shall produce at trial.
Barrington Wilson.
New Interest
Shown
In The Contest
*
Watch for the special offer in the next issue.
The contestants have gone in with renewed interest
as can be seen from their standing. The lucky ones will
soon reap the reward for their efforts, only three more
weeks and .the grand prizes wifi be awarded to the young
lady having the greatest number of votes. •
Contestants can you afford to remain idle with the goal
so near at hand? It behooves v ou to wake up to the fact
that some one is going to win these prizes, aftd .why not
you. Friends-nbw if the .time.'&v' t^-ally fh
pert of your'favorite. (Jet out and lencfa helping hand.
Push her to the front and give her a lead that will enable
her to hold the others safe. A little effort on your part is
sure to tell, and how it will be appreciated by the young
lady, then too you wish to have the satisfaction of seeing
your choice win. Young ladies ask the support of your
friends,- Get them to help you, at this time there U no
one so far in the lead but what can be easily over
taken, then use a little extra effort on your part and see
if you can’t take the lead and hold it to the finish, it will
be well worth your efforts. Just think! only three 1nore
weeks and the announcement will be made public who
wins, and the prizes will be carried away by the winning
contestant. Will it be you?
; Friends of the contestants are becoming anxious as
to the standing of their favorites, as can readily be seen
by the inquiries being made at this office.
The offer to be made in next weeks issue should) en
able some one to gain a lead that cannot be overtaken
very easily. See the merchants and get them to give you
their advertising for the balance of this year get after'the
doctors and lawyers and ask them to put in their proffes-
sional cards in your favor. Resolve to win and give some
one a race that will long be remembered.
Below is the standing of the contestants to date;
Standing of the Candidates
Miss Ora Brinson 59,025
Bertha Powell 32,075
“ Lela Moore 3,050
“ Maggie Rehberg 7,000
. “ Rochelle Morrisonw 2,076
“ Sallie Belle Cooper. 4,425
V Addie Lou Powell 1,200
“ Lucile Stringer 43,875
“ Mary Bell 13,425
Estelle Herring 1,526
“ Carrie Autry 2,050
Belle West 2,000
Miss Maude Maxwell.., i 1,000
Mattie Butler'..^,..... 1,000
Winiford Harper...... 1,000
Ethel Brock 1,075
“ Bessie Mitchell..^ 1,000
Pauline Sasser. 1 ...... J.,000
“ Katherihe Dunn...... 5,800
Viola Blitph 3,900
Nora Cox. 12,200
Emma Singletary. G9,950
Mae Maxwell.1,000
,, Jewell JbneS^... 10,250
Mrs. T. J. Butler 43,725
ton, Ala., and Pelham, Ga., voted
improvement bonds. Gadsden called
an election on the issuance of $50,-
000 of water works bonds. Ogle
thorpe, Ga., will vote in April on
lighting and waterworks bonds.
McDonough, Ga,, is having plans
prepared for water works and
electric lights.
“Throughout the pine forest belt
dollar-curpentine inspired a feeling
of radiant optism, the price having
advanced from 35 cents to $1.05
per gallon in three years time. A
navigation company operating oh
the Ocmulgee river in Georgia is to
quadruple the present capital em
ployed and to purchase two new
steamboats. Northern capitalists
are to erect a large veneering plant
near Dothan, Ala. A company has
obtained options on a large tract of
land in the black belt of Alabama
and will offer it in the shape of
small farms to desirble while
settlers. The land owners are co
operating and rite stockholders in
the holding company.”
W. C. T.«. OF CAIRO
STARTS NOVEL CAMPAIGN
Making a Hard and Strong Fight
to Enlist Every Lady Its Grady
Connty as a Member.
The Cairo W. C. T. U. held an
interesting and enthusiastio meet
ing at the league hall Friday af
ternoon. It waB the beginning
of our membership crusade.
The White side had 14 mem
bers present, the Blue side 19.
Mrs. Sutton resigned the cap-
tancy, Mrs. R. C. Bell was elect
ed in her stead.
We want every woman in
Grady county to join us in our
fight against whiskey and its in
fluence. If you are not near en
ough to attend our meeting help
us with your influence, send us
your name and $1.00 for dues.
Your name will be enrolled as an
honorary member of the Cairo
Union, your dollar will be used to
strengthen the sentiment for
temperance and purity in our
county and state.
Let us not sleep as our Alabama
sisters did until the enemy has
gained the victory, but let us be
up and doing while it is called
today. .
, We would like to say if any
of our gentlemen friends will
furnish our union with evidence
of blind tjgars said to be in our
men'ey ‘feh
tiie prosecution of same.
If you are interested in temper-
ence don’t hesitate, send your
name immediately. Weneadyou.
Mrs. T. F. Moore, Pres.
Cairo W. C. T. U.
MEETING IS IN
JULL BLAST
At the Cairo Methodist
Church
FINAL REPORT 01
Total crop 11,941,563 Bales—Sea
Islands 90,368—Linters 387,592
Bales.
Washington. D. C., March 20.
The census bureau’s reports show
the cotton crop for 1910 to be
11,931,563 bales, counting round
as half bales, and including lin
ters, compared with 10,386,209
for 1909. Included m the statis
tics for 1910 are linters, 397,592
bales; sea island cotton, 80,368;
round, 112,887 bales.
The average gross weight of
bales is 501.2 pounds for 1910,
compared with 496.6 for 1909.
Expressed in equivalent 500
pound bales, the 1910 crop Is 11,-
969,757, compared with 10,315,-
82 for 1909.
Cotton estimated by ginners
and delinters remaining to be
ginned and inclnded in the statics
for 1910, amounts to 70,169 bales.
The 1910 crops by states is re
ported as follows:
Running 600-lb.
State— bales. bales
Alabama 1,217,399 1,220,607
Arkansas.. 821,236 844,860
Florida 68,295 69,696
Georgia 1,865,896 1,818,682
Louisiana 257,987 266,334
Mississippi 1,260,479 1,303,379
North Carolina 771,185 723,476
Ooklahoma 964,433 957,004
South Carolina 1,237,036 1,166,187
Tennessee ..... 336,206 348,139
Texas.. 3,071,263 3,170,098
Ali other states 91,168 91,295
Negro Killed
A negro was killed last Tuesday
at Lewis’ Variety works. A belt
broke and caught him in such a
manner that he was whirled around
the shaft, killing him almost in
stantly.
BEING LED BY HISS EMMA l. TUCKER
Who Is Giving Her Bible Read
ings Twice Dally—Talk to Men
and Boys Only, Sunday—Meet
ing to Continue Another Week.
The protracted meeting, at the
Methodist church, began last Sun
day, as announced, in these columns
The attendance has been unusally
large and the interest is steadily in
creasing.
Miss Tucker is a fluent and im
pressive speaker and holds the rapt
attention of her hearers from the be
ginning to the end.
Her addresses are plain messages
from God’s Word, emphasized by
clear, terse and striking comments.
Her illustrations are ' from 'life,
gathered from her very extensive
experience in evangelistic and slum
work. These are frequently very
striking and touching.
Her one aim sesins to be to give
the people God’s word, as , illumi
nated by- the Holy Spirit an '
illustrated in personal experience.
Mr. Stapleton is leading the sing-
.infc akffijflyfita’yicc,. with '.an pceu-
sihnal splo, tp the • deligfit of all.
There are two services a day. The
morning gathering is at ten o’clock
and is for one hour. The night
service begins at half past seven.
The meeting will continue dur
ing the coming week.
Meeting for Young Men
Addressed by Miss Tucker
There 1 will be a meeting for men
and bovs only, at the Methodist
church next Sunday afternoon, at
three thirty o’olock.
This service will be addressed by
Miss Tucker, with a special message
to the men. .
All boys are invited.
At the same hour the ladies will
hold a special service of prayer at
the Presbyterian church. This
meeting will be led by Mrs. W. C.
Jones.
The usual session of the. Sunday
school, hit the Methodist church,
will be called in, on account of the
men’s meeting. ,
Stores Will Close at 6
O’clock After April \
Cairo, Ga., March 20, 1911.
We, the undersigned merch-
chants of Cairo do agree to close
our stores each afternoon at 6
o’clock,.Saturday excepted, from
April 1st to August 15, 1911.
J. L. Oliver’s Son, John L.
Poulk, Poulk Bros. Co., Wight
Bros. Co., Wight Hardware Co,,
Cairo Furniture Co., Higdon-
Herring Co., Roddenbery Hard
ware Co., G. S. Johnson, O. F.
Sanders, Grady County Furniture
Co., J. A. Hudson, Abe Poller,
M. Rappeport, Forester Bros.
Who Has Announced It?
Announced what? That the re
gular services of the Baptist church
are “called in.” Not the pastor.
On the contrary, he announces that
those services will be held, as usual,
next Sunday morning and night.
The subject, at/the morning hour,
will be The Re son Why.
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